the stakes are high for egypt as a vote on a new constitution that has already torn the nation apart by spotting a new wave of outrage on deadly street by. slaughter on a horrific scale in a us school with twenty six people killed in a spree shooting most of them pupils under the age of ten. plus debt crisis austerity crisis and now seemingly a calorie crisis britain's foreign spiraling food costs means that healthy options are out there.

it is a pleasure to have you with us this saturday here on arts he. said live in moscow where it's not. my disfavor dean degree celcius egyptians are deciding the fate of a brand new constitution which has divided the nation and turned the streets of the country's key cities into battlegrounds a chorus of critics have pushed for the referendums delay saying that the islamic led document is flawed and not representative of the population a car a base report of bell true reports after three weeks if it's go time i only see mass rallies against the president time to bloody scenes in the streets of egypt's major combat cities over ninety minutes she apparently beefed up security at the polling stations for people to come in and they of course have been called in by the president's secure the nation in this time of political unrest and the referendum we expect out hundreds of thousands of police officers and soldiers in the streets today you can see. the scenes are calm this comes after violent scenes

yesterday on friday and on xandra egypt's second city which saw clashes between rival protest groups is a call to the constitution those against it including groups wielding machetes. and with around about one thousand injured and possible dead to the we haven't had that confirmed yet this of course follows several weeks worth of violence seats in the streets of cairo the referendum is actually being held across two days is there not a sufficient number of judges to supervise the process this opposition forces say is a major problem and could open up the referendum to vote rigging in addition civil society groups here questioning how that is possible for them to observe the elections to for electoral fraud since the head of the constituent assembly who drafted the constitution is also the head of the national human rights council he will be overseeing the observation of the polling stations the constitution itself

is a major point of contention also the opposition forces they have said that it is written by islamist dominated constituent assembly these somebody with its muscle caused by liberal leftist and church and therefore it will only enforce a religious state it also they said would impose a presidential dictatorship and neglect key rights and freedoms of expression so this constitution they say should be rewritten the constituent somebody should be reforged so we'll have to see with the results of the referendum the future of egypt and a deep division between egypt's opposition is another reason why the vote on the referendum is unlikely to reflect the attitudes of the public that's according to journalist and middle east analyst to talk about the. morsi is not showing any signs of flexibility he's not showing any signs of building consensus he is shown to be a very stubborn person regardless of the outcome of the referendum the

scene in egypt right now it's an indicative there there is going to be a mass. playing with the results there is already reports about money and sustenance is being given to poor people to encourage them to go out and vote favorably with yes for the constitution and on the other side the egyptians are still divided into different groups and the mobilization of the voters are not going as it should have been going so it's not really representative of the nations when or of the consensus that should have been existing this is r.t. and turkey has taken the chance to abandon an old friendship to satisfy its own ambitions i'm sure helps washington to keep tabs on syria's president assad public when western support and a possible foothold in syria but turns

a blind eye to internal conflicts that report coming your way in just a few minutes here. for now though it is one of the worst school shootings in u.s. history twenty six people gunned down in a u.s. primary school in connecticut twenty of them young children people try to hide from the killer in classrooms and closets but the bloodbath ended only when he turned the gun on himself women believed to be his mother was also found dead at her house parties guy nature can report on the massacre of innocent life. there's still lots of questions as to what happened at that elementary school in connecticut the shooter has not been officially identified at this point but according to various reports it was adam lanza twenty year old who went into his mother's kindergarten class she was a teacher at that school and wiped out the entire class twenty children were killed in the carnage eighteen children died at the scene to the hospital those were five

year olds six year old small children the shooter also targeted and killed six adults and unless his mother the teacher was also found dead in her home should leave near the school the suspect it's three is the suspected shooter had three guns on him as he went into the school two handguns and one semiautomatic weapon all reportedly registered to adam lanza's mother a witness said there must have been one hundred rounds fired after killing all these people adam lanza reportedly shot himself there has been a number of horrifying shootings at schools in the us in the past but never has there been a rampage that killed this many small children in two thousand and seven a student killed thirty two people at virginia tech we of course remember the columbine massacre in colorado where two students shot and killed thirteen people and injured twenty four but the children killed in connecticut were very very young we heard president obama deliver tearful speech this friday but nevertheless the

white house has pretty much dodged questions on its gun policy and those are questions on many people's minds right now but the president did say it's time to take meaningful action to prevent mess occurs like this from happening again but what action he did not specify is the fact of the matter is that getting a gun is fairly easy in the u.s. adam lanza's mother apparently had no problem purchasing and registering story guns one of them a semi automatic weapon and it's a powerful deadly weapon one of the policy goals of president obama was a ban on assault weapons but is thought to be a losing. proposition for any politician in the u.s. to really seriously consider seriously take on the issue attempts to regulate guns inevitably hit a wall and that wall is the second amendment the right of the people to bear arms some states here do have controls over gun possession but again very limited controls the state of illinois for example used to have a ban on concealed weapons but this week

a federal court ruling struck down the country's last such poor vision as unconstitutional and ordered the state to craft a law allowing it so much for gun control in the us the state of wisconsin passed out its ban on concealed weapons last year and it seems there is no way of arguing against the amendment even despite these absolutely horrifying and recurring incidents. of course want to gun a chicken reporting the tragedy once again triggered a wave of criticism that getting your hands on a weapon is just too easy to lose while going to the white house to see an anti guns rally. many people are taking their concerns to the front of the white house as you can see about one hundred people are gathered here holding signs holding candles trying to make their voices heard saying that now is the time to talk about gun control and the u.s. we spoke to some of the protesters here's what they had to say today we saw

a roomful of kindergartners slaughtered by a guy who never should have gotten a gun. if our president can't talk about it the issue now as a father of two daughters young daughters i think it's time for him for a gut check in it's there's no more and no more excuses anymore this should not have happened we should have measures in place before this to prevent people from accessing guns who are not fit to hold them also in my opinion i don't think something that is military grade as an assault rifle i don't think that should be in the hands of anybody it's not a toy and we can't keep our teachers and our children and our school administrators safe and in very day we can't keep people who are walking then that should be changed and to resign ourselves to the saying that this is a problem that has no solution is defeatist and we should we should take this on and change what we did hear from press secretary jay carney earlier this morning who said today is not the day to be talking about gun control we also heard

a very emotional speech from president obama sending his condolences to the victims to the family is in newtown connecticut he did not talk about the issue of guns or gun control but protesters here say if today is not the day in the wake of this very tragic mass shooting they don't know when that time. and washington are to. come with you live from the heart of moscow a european court slaps the c.r.u. with quote torture accusations and throws its weight behind a german citizen who was mistaken for a terrorist and become a victim of u.s. agents brutal interrogation techniques so that's coming your way with other stories . after the show. an artist was arrested for putting up posters critical of drone usage all over new

york city the poster show a menacing drone shooting a missile at innocent children with the words drones protection when you least expect it written at the bottom these posters definitely reflect a lot of americans fears that a big brother skynet will completely eliminate the very concept of privacy and free speech so to prove that americans live in a free country without any government spying the n.y.p.d. hunted down the anonymous artist and arrested him for expressing himself having arrested him at his residence they charged him with fifty six counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument grand larceny possession of stolen property and weapons possession for having a deadly terrorist weapon and unloaded twenty two caliber pistol although being in jail won't be pleasant perhaps arzt s m a t actually in the end it got what he wanted he proved to the world that big brother surveilled him and arrested him all for throwing up a few posters looks like he proved his point but that's just my opinion.

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a researcher live on our us to germany and the netherlands at applying patriot missiles manned by four hundred american troops and turkey next to syria's northern border officially tasked with the defense against possible cross border aggression and the missiles range will extend deep into syrian territory. why turkey is so eager to contain its former friend. he may have treated his command bridge for an apartment in his done ball but retired admiral turner couriered turk still keeps tabs on his country's foreign policy and he doesn't like what he sees like many turkish patriots the admiral believes his country is second fighting common sense and domestic concerns from western interests. turkey is looking at the middle east through america's eyes not for a purely turkish perspective for example with syria turkey claims it wants to see

democracy in syria but look who it's working with saudi arabia qatar and their democratic credit is wanting. forget the zero problems with neighbor's rule which in corral has prided itself on for many decades critics now see turkey as dancing to one nation's. kill people but that does not suffice. because you need. food in both countries use social strata some people internalize u.s. policy and represent in the countries that have been invaded so this is very tricky comes in geographically and culturally it's agreed base camp for the likes of the u.s. and nato to take a foothold in their anti acid invasion it was just two years ago that turkey was

calling bashar lost a brother and voting against sanctions on iran its relatively recent change of heart however may not have everything to do with turkey's desire to appease the west and may indeed be part of the plan by turkish officials to become regional if not global major players. has. been but it was some other years ago. it was true. syria was part of the land. now syria is. member of the next nation. independent state. and turkey hasn't any rights. to. syrian policy internal issues there is a conflict for thirty years in turkey you think. turkey steak which of course is

an every day. people young people lost their life from both sides so. if i had to. stop the bloodshed in turkey then think of syria or. yet turkish officials seem to skirt the issue of their internal problems and instead turn their attention elsewhere in syria the case in point but the likes of retired admiral believe the turkey is a cursed one should its present commanders continue on their current course it didn't go. that was the christmas spirit becoming an obsession so by much as you can find out a bit later and. go back to church and you read the bible to find free. to remember what the holiday is supposed to be for i just think people

should think that every year has to be the best christmas ever enjoyed oftenest a bit later in the program here on r.t. she hits the streets. so approaching twenty minutes past the hour here moscow time of britons are biting off less than they can chew it seems the cost of healthy food to move them beyond the reach of many people food prices there of going up by a third in just five years anything many families stuck on cheap prepackaged meals . reports on how started shopping lists are quickly becoming a luxury. do you look at what you're putting in your shopping basket health conscious customers might want to stock up on their fruit and vege but what if that's getting too expensive for families in the u.k. the cost of their weekly shop has gone up by over a third over the past five years and it's set to get more expensive still among the

healthier fresh meat so you can find chicken breasts for five ninety nine per kilogram and if you've got your frozen process then as retailing at one twenty nine in some cases now if you're a struggling household with lots of mouths to feed it's a no brainer britain is now in the midst of a nutritional recession to go hand in hand with the financial one every million children in the u.k. are going without a daily healthy meal now the coalition government provides free free to move to schools and they supplement those on the lower income but it looks like the cheaper meal deals are often more appealing than the government health warnings health campaigners say it's time for the government to serve up a new plan to get britain struggling households to acquire not just the taste but also the means for a healthier diet. reporting right a lot more if you were to get the website also called including a look at those whose love for animals goes just a bit too far for the german government passes

a law banning. dieting debate over just whose moral compass is pointing in the right direction. i'm not afraid to get dirty to look good. young woman here in russia dives into a rubbish to retrieve the makeup she sort of threw away so you can read all about her leap of faith on water. thanks for joining us here on ars he it's a day at the european court of human rights has made its first ever ruling that the cia is guilty of torture in a case involving a german citizen the court found that khalid elop musri was illegally abducted

tortured and sort of my eyes to buy u.s. agents soft being mistaken as an al qaeda member nine years ago the u.s. is now being pursued for an apology and compensation but author and historian doug valentine says that's unlikely to happen if the cia operates above the law. no cia officer ever will be will ever be. a prison or prison term even in the united states of convicted of a crime these people are simply above the law the only thing that the cia does is to conduct illegal activities which is why it's above the law it's business is doing things that are illegal so the fact that it's found guilty. or asia or south america or any place to do illegal things that simply a call for regime of what it does this is not a pro bill of. those things without prior authorization from congress the

president's national security officers everything that of those is policy. now christmas is a time when shops hope to do some brisk business but artie's the president asks new yorkers if the festive spirit is turning into a shopaholic addiction. why have the holidays become such hellish days this week and let's talk about that it's a commercial thing now everyone just want to spend money it's not about what it really should be about how did that happen is it the media telling us to buy buy buy a absolutely it's everyone with their sales and absolutely i live on what people buy you know and i'm an independent sales rep so i depend on it so you're happy with this christmas i'm happy this christmas i sell luxury goods as long as people keep buying it that i have a holiday that's it a way to stop that would be to go back to church to read the bible and to find

faith and to remember what the holiday is supposed to be for what about people of other religions and it is there anything for them i said i said to find religion. is there saving for them i believe in christianity but i think it's important that whether it's christiane to be or not that you have morals and values based on religious faith do you think there's a war in christmas oh i don't think there's a war on christmas i just think people shouldn't think that every year has to be the best christmas ever is that what we do we set our expectations too high we do i think that we should just enjoy it that each year should be a nice christmas with a couple of presents maybe full of press that's right along with the feeling of safety and community with all these holidays also remind people believe or not this is just my opinion holidays remind people of their own mortality that we're not going to be around here very much longer and our lives are very short. because we tend to remember the people who have gone on the holidays as well and that's why we

p.c. the holidays we just want to feel safe we want to feel like i'm extending my time here a little bit more and i want you to believe what i believe yes and maybe as someone others someone else's believes makes us feel better and that's exactly what we tell you to doses of approaching the fiscal cliff is not as much about. shopping this year as all the rest of my fifty nine years sixty of you are going to be a little bit different how you can do it differently. i have to say but it was going to be on facebook. just watching people make christmas and calling it a day like whether or not the world has lost its holiday spirit the bottom line is it wouldn't hurt any of us to take a look inside to find our own private reason to celebrate this thing. found off next we're off to the icy city of.

in this remote siberians in which people still sing this sounds which russians sang in the middle ages and they cherish the ancient rituals practiced by the will sit up church before the seventeenth century the old believers here is sighing bierria our conservative community they're known as the simi skia a word which refers to family. that i may believe need there yet i feel. i know i'm the first to tell you that. i. people here are happy to show their way of life to tourists and to show them how to dance in the local star. use of prayer on the bill and a girl needs to watch her legs don't go up too much during the dance she must be

a modest. seventeen year old nanda is from the same village she now studies in the city and dances at a club. she puts on her costume and the traditional amber necklace only when she comes to visit her grandmother. ok. i didn't ask on time for her dad says because i want to keep up to date with this morning world but still i would like to have camp my very ground home exercise layered and this is my treasure their attachment to the church brought not just an sisters to this remote glen east deflate by call more than two hundred fifty years ago they were exiled in pesach you tit for not. green to the orthodox who form the sting washing the sixteen hundred they wanted to maintain their time honored

rituals they'll believe is still baal and cross themselves with two fingers not with three as they do in modern orthodox churches in russia and never knew when praying but this father say he says it's not so much the rituals they cherish as the moral principles he does not approve of what ninety's doing is according to the old believe a woman must never show her naked legs and because this thing started to spoil during the soviet union. was more and more young people leaving for big cities this year is the old believers culture could be imperiled nowadays young people prefer urban life to devoting their life to agriculture but it's not necessary to leave the inside to remember that trying to keep their. plans to continue her studies abroad to grandmother says wherever she goes as long as the teen years are fresh in her memory so is the culture of.

the woman screams in lines above the arctic circle and even for russia this is a tough climate to survive even when temperatures can stay below zero for eight months of the year. standing on the outskirts of the city of ski it's right up in the far north of russia and it's been the starting point for many polar expeditions hoping i'm going to get to troy to arctic challenges but so. yes. have to be physically fit to survive on here and the people certainly seem to have a lot of energy one of the biggest annual events and moments skews the northern lympics

a collection of winter games that brings the population out in force and this it is a welcome to take home to. now if you're going to be an arctic explorer one thing you have to have is plenty of stamina so i have decided to enter alternate routes to been during the cross-country march. and. here goodman thank you very much your number one thirty one thirty which i think is about was about a thousand people here. i'll make it to number one hundred thirty i'll be very lucky ok so if i'm torn as an experience i'm one of the race organizers and apparently i wasn't exactly in for a treat can you tell me a bit about the specifics of the race because it seems fairly.